#weimar era

[princelycherub]

Anders als die Andern - 1919

[soapkaars]

It's one minute to midnight, and I finished my sacrifice present for Lorre's birthday just in time! Featuring the three Peter Lorres - the gay Weimar era Lorre, when the world seemed to be changing towards something better and more hopeful and he was at the beginning of his career as a great avant-garde actor, the serious film noir era Lorre, exiled to the US, playing suave and intelligent villains, and finally, old Lorre, tired but still acting, still working hard, smiling because what else can he do? 'I am happy because everyone loves me'

[itsagallery]

George Grosz. Eclipse of the Sun. 1926. Oil on canvas.

[julietta-dorota]

[mote-historie]

Ruth Jacobi, Spaziergängerin mit Gans, Humorous street snapshot from the Jewish Quarter of a woman walking a goose by the collar as if the fawl were her dog in the streets of New York City, 1928

Ruth Jacobi was the sister of Lotte Jacobi. Photography ran in the Jacobi family. Lotte and Ruth's great-grandfather, Samuel Jacobi, visited Paris between 1839 and 1842, where he obtained a camera, a license, and some instruction from L.J.M. Daguerre and then returned to Thorn to set up a studio. He prospered at his trade and eventually passed the business on to his son, Alexander. Alexander, in turn, handed the business down to his three sons, the eldest of whom was Lotte and Ruth's father, Sigismund. 

Ruth Jacobi emigrated in 1935 to New York, where she opened a studio together with her sister Lotte Jacobi.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jeanne Mammen

Romanisches Café

1930

[marxist-lonelynist]

Members of the Red Ruhr Army during the Ruhr uprising, 1920

[mygirlhatesmyheroin]

Photograph by Else Neuländer Simon, also known as Yva, circa 1920s, Berlin.

Born in 1900 in Berlin, Else worked her magic through fashion and advertising photography as well as owning a popular studio. She had a keen eye for the sensual interplay of light and shadow and used lines and curves to dramatically display the women she photographed.

Frequently, she said more about a subject by deliberately avoiding the model's face. Many photos focused on, or depicted solely, a woman's legs, and they were sexy and sophisticated works that endure through today. The importance of her art and her role are reflected in the fact that she taught Helmut Newton, who went on to become one of history's most famous photographers.